I just received one of those Christian email things designed to make us throw up our hands in fear and fall prostrate to the ground in sheer terror for our faith is great jeopardy. Some Muslim folks want to gather for a prayer rally. Oh dreaded day.
There was also a special note about an "emergent" Christian who is actually calling for a special time of prayer that we might learn tolerance of our Muslim neighbors. This is part of the warning, apparently.
oh. oh. oh. This is me jumping up and down and biting my tongue in frustration.
I don't need to say it to you. But I am going to say it, to hopefully prevent me from chewing through part of my desk.
Jesus Christ did not call us to oppose any religion but to love all mankind.
How, I wonder, do these fearful inflammatory folk think our Muslim neighbors will feel when they hear the "Christians" are rising up in prayer and panic over their own prayer meeting? As if they will suddenly realize the love and salvation of Jesus Christ because they're being looked upon like predators for having a prayer meeting? That's NOT what Jesus would do. I don't care where the meeting is. (Washington.) This is a free country. And, by the way, that freedom was a God given idea. You know, freedom to worship and all that.
The Crusades are over. It was wrong then and it is still wrong now.
Thanks I feel better.
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No kidding. EVEN IF (and that's a huge if, but I know some people see it this way) EVEN IF people of other religions are our enemy, didn't Jesus tell us to LOVE our enemies?
I had to finally put some Gmail filters in place that took all emails from certain acquaintances and moved them right to the trash. Because almost ALL of them were of that type of hate-mongering mail, masquerading as "Christians concerned about the world."
Anyway, just wanted to say I understand. And don't gnaw on your desk - I can tell you it's hell getting the splinters out of your gums.
good point, e.
thanks, jim. this one came from a newsgroup i need to stay on. the moderator is pretty good, so this one might be checked.
my desk is laminate. be more likely to get cancer from it than splinters!
Agreed Cindy. Many of our Christian brethren should get out of their so-called Christian bubbles and know these folks. Maybe if they'd spend less time in The Holy Land Experience...
...irony intended. :-)
andy the memory of your "interesting" photos made me smile this morning!!
I love the hypocrisy evident in the senders of these e-mails. I have an aunt that sends only two types. One about the horror of "x" group trying to do their thing, the other claiming the government is trying to shut christians down. She apparently sees no hypocrisy in playing peresecuter and persecuted at the same time.
steve- exactly! its so obvious i can't figure what's going on in their heads. there's such a culture of paranoia that all sense seems to go out the window. and all they have to do is open their bible to know what real persecution looks like. yet... sigh.
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